Skandar and the Unicorn Thief

In his haste to flee the Prison, Skandar loses the Book of Spirit that Agatha passed to him before he left. He chooses to escape with his friends, whom he considers more important than going back for the book. Suddenly, they encounter the Weaver, who has a newly forged bond with New-Age Frost, Aspen McGrath’s unicorn. To escape the incident, Scoundrel’s Luck and the other unicorns fly for the first time ever, even before their instructors teach them how to do so. When they return to the Eyrie, Mitch’s father meets them and informs Mitch that the Weaver has taken his cousin. Instead of ruminating on that, the group begins to make a plan for finding the spirit den—the one place in the Eyrie that is safe for spirit wielders. Before they turn in for the night, Mitch apologizes for how poorly he treated Skandar and explains that he did so because his father hates spirit wielders and always treated his son poorly. As a result, Mitch felt compelled to hate spirit wielders as well in order to gain a sense of worth in his father’s eyes. Now, though, Mitch understands that he can hold different opinions from his father.